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" My dad was an autoworker, my mom was a clerk. Until I was thirty-five, I never made more than fifteen thousand dollars a year. "

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" The American media wants to pump you full of fear. "

" Oprah's got good politics, she's got a good heart, and she'll have us all up Jazzercising at six in the morning. This cannot be a bad thing, and reading a book while we're Jazzercising. So America would be better off if Oprah were president. "

" The American public believes that health care is a right and not a commodity. "

" I have never owned a share of stock in my life, and the only time I've double dipped into anything is at the snack tray. "

" I think there are few things more patriotic than taking the time to make your country a better place. "

" People like me who grew up in a working-class town, who don't have a college education, you don't usually hear from us. "

" Capitalism would have never let me be a filmmaker, living in Flint, Michigan with a high school education. I was going to have to make that happen myself. "

" Building up the arms did not cause the fall of Eastern Europe. "

" I and you and everyone else has to be a political activist. "

" It turns out Cuba has this incredible healthcare system for a very poor country. "

" I think I'm in the majority of Americans. I believe that I am in the mainstream of middle America. "

" The vast majority of the guns in the U.S. are sold to white people who live in the suburbs or the country. When we fantasize about being mugged or home invaded, what's the image of the perpetrator in our heads? Is it the freckled-face kid from down the street - or is it someone who is, if not black, at least poor? "

" I'm interested to see what happens with Fox News and phone hacking. I really can't believe it just happens in Great Britain. Because really, who cares about just hacking phones over there? "

" I'm caught up probably just as much in the consumer culture as the next person. "

" For a documentary filmmaker, I do very well. "

" My dad was an assembly line worker at AC Spark Plug, which was a division of General Motors, and his job was to build and then inspect the little spark plugs as they came off the line. "

" All art is about appealing to emotion. "

" I watch way too much C-SPAN. "

" Television has its own award. It's called the Emmy. It's a good award. I like it. I have one. But you don't see movies like 'The King's Speech' win Oscars and then go to TV and qualify for Emmys. In documentaries, some networks have been able to game the system. "

" Occupy has to continue as a bold, in-your-face movement - occupying banks, corporate headquarters, board meetings, campuses and Wall Street itself. We need weekly - if not daily - nonviolent assaults right on Wall Street. "

" Our laws demand that a corporation have a fiduciary responsibility with shareholders to maximize profits. They are legally required to make as much money as possible, any way possible within 'the law.' "

" No 22-year-old should have to enter the real world already in a virtual debtors' prison. "

" I certainly believe that I have no right to tell another couple whether they can or cannot be married. "

" It should be a crime to make a profit off somebody being sick. "

" I drive an American car. It's a Chrysler. That's not an endorsement. It's more like a cry for pity. "

" In America, we don't, in daily discourse, use the words 'capitalism' or 'socialism.' They've been kind of nonexistent words, I would say, amongst the general public. "

" The health insurance industry does not like to pay out claims, because they don't make money. The only way they can make a profit is if they don't pay for your operation. If they pay for your operation and your doctor's appointment and your pharmaceuticals, they don't make any money. "

" I think the NRA, they got it half-right when they say, 'Guns don't kill people, people kill people.' I change it to, 'Guns don't kill people, Americans kill people.' "

" I've always felt so grateful that I dropped out of school, that I never had to do a thesis. I wouldn't know how to organise and structure myself to film so that B follows A and C follows B. "

" First of all, the American people are inundated with advertisement after advertisement of you buy, buy, buy. You've got to have the latest thing. The iPad 1 isn't any good anymore, you've got to have the iPad 2. The iPhone 4, now you've got to have iPhone 4S. Now you've got to have the 5b, now you've got to have the 6c. "